Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1887-02-19
legislative Proceedings.
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an act to incorporate the Lime Rock Railroad
Company.
Bill, in new draft, an act to amend an act
creating the Phillips Village Corporation.
Bill an act to incorporate the Bath Dry
Dock Co.
Bill an act to prohibit fishing in Bonney
Eagle pond in Buxton and Standish.
Bill an act to amend sec. l, chap. 425, priv
ate and special laws of 1885.
Bill an act to incorporate the Sebago Lake
and Mechanic Falls Railroad Co.
Bill an act to incorporate the Castine and
Bangor Railroad Co.
Bill an act to incorporate the Pennington
Water Co,
Bill an act authorizing the town of Ken
nebunkport to aid in manufacturing.
Bill an act to incorporate the Golden Rule
Mutual Accident Association,
Bill an act to incorporate the Bingham and
Moose River Telegraph and Telephone Co.
Bill an act Incorporating the Cumberland
Illuminating Co.
Bill an act to incorporate the Lincoln Viii
lage Corporation.
Resolve in aid of bridges in Island Falls.
Resolve in favor of the town of French
vile, Aroostook county.
Resolve in favor of Hamlin Plantation,
PASSED TO BE ENACTED.
Bill an act to repeal sec. 4, chap. 81, re-
vised statutes, relative to returns by treas
urers of steam navigation companies.
Bill an act to amend sections 80 and 80,
chap, "a, revised statutes, relating to persons
10 unincOrporated places.
Bill an act to amend chap. 70, revised stat
utes, relating to insolvency proceedings.
Bill an act concerning boomage rights at
Rumford in the county of Oxford.
Bill 40 act to provide for the burial ex.
penses of honorably discharged soldiers and
sailors of Maine who shall die in destitute
circumstances.
House document 70, resolve making ap-
preparations for erecting monuments, pur
chasing and improving land on the battle
field of Gettysburg, came up under special
assignment, the pending question being the
reconsideration of the motion passing the
resolve to be engrossed.
Mr.. Walton of Skowhegan did not propose
to intict speech upon the House. though he
supposed it would be expected that he would
have something 10 say, as he had made the
motion to reconsider. be presumed the
gentlemen had already made some investiga-
ton and come to some conclusion on this
subject. He would like to hear from the
chairman of the Military Committee.
MIR. Shaw of Portland thought it would
hardly be becoming to him to make a speech
at this point, but at the proper time he would
give to the House the reasons of the COM
mittee for their action
Mr.. Wakefield of Bath had not designed to
say anything in the way of argument. He
thought the gentleman had been afforded
ample time to consider the advisability of
giving the amount asked for in the resolve as
amended. When the friends of this measure
advocated an appropriation, they went before
the committee in fear and trembling. Itwas
an UNUSUAL appropriation. They were fearful
that if they asked for an amount that would
be adequate to fairly and reasonably repre-.
sent our State upon that historic field, they
might not get favorable report. After con-
sultation the friends concluded to ask for an
appropriation of about $500. He did not
wish our State to purchase niggardly policy.
He only asked that there should be apprJpr.
ated an amount that will compare tavorably
with the appropriations of our sister States.
He cited the large appropriations that have
been made by the different States, and also
contemplated OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES that
monuments are erected on that field by eleven
States, at an average cost of $l359 to a reg
iment. He went further to show that after
deducting the cost of transportation, fOunda-
ton of monument, grading of lots, etc, the
amount that would be applicable to the cost
OF the monuments, under this resolve, would
average 1925. In contravention of the argu-
ment that the State is too poor to appropriate
the large sum or $4,000, he reviewed the
condition of the finances from 1861 to the
present time, showing such large decrease
in the debt.
MIR. Newbert of Appleton said: No mat
upon the floor of this House honored more
than he did the memory of those brave men
who, when their country was in danger,
sprang forth from the hills and valleys of
Maine, from the farms and workshops, rom
the mills and forests from the pulpits and
halls of learning, in short from every place
where her sturdy and loyal sons could be
found, to defend that flag which today is the
pride of the whole world that all of US might
enjoy the civil and religious liberty that we
now do. and that we might still continue to
live in thi, grand old Union and not in con-
federacy of States.
The charges of those brave but misguided
soldiers of the South, under their gallant
leaders, were like the breaking of the huge
waves of the Atlantic upon our own granite
shores; they met Northern valor upon Gene
tsry Ridge and Little R,und Top, and were
hurled back with broken ranks, crushed and
bleeding, across the Potomac never to re-
turn under the stars and bars of the confed-
eracy. Thousands of loval hands have as
sisted in the task Of constructing the nation
al monument and cemetery of Gettysburg,
and henceforth it is to be the mecca of those
who love to stand amid the ashes of the gal.
liant dead, and draw inspiration from deeds
CT manly daring.
The State of Maine has ALWAYS been gen.
erous to her soldiers. Only two years ago
she gave them $40 900 for the national en-
campment at Portland, and every citizen said
well done; and now the legislature is willing
to give them Sll, 900 more and if in two
years they are still in need, he said give them
more.
The veterans of this State did not call for
this extra appropriation, had not talked of it
and he did not think We ought to place them in
false position in this matter. Applause.
Mr.. Sawyer of LiDcoln did not know that
what we did here today would BIZ long re-
membered. but he did believe that the sub
ject before the House would be remembered
when all else shall have been forgotten.
From the shades Of Mount Vernon this re-
public was held together through wrannling
piques and quarrels. by George Washington;
from the tomb in Springfield halo of gloiv
goes out over q regenarated republic. And
that regenerated republic was brought
forth, born anew, saved, at the battle of
Gettysburg. 1t was not only meet and Just
that our Grand Army, that the citizens,
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